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1920 :

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the year of the six presidents /

David Pietrusza

1st Carroll & Graf ed

New York :

Carroll & Graf Publishers,

2007

533 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-522) and index

The players in our drama -- "Discover a common hate" -- "Something queer was happening" -- "I seem to have gone to pieces" -- "He is the only candidate" -- "A turtle on a log" -- "I am Governor of Massachusetts" -- "He is certainly a wonder" -- "A twentieth-century Apollo" -- "Criminal intrigues everywhere" -- "Superior biologic values" -- "The funeral bake meats" -- "A 'safe' kind of liberal" -- "Red feathers, tin bears and cardboard oranges" -- "Warren Harding is the best of the second raters" -- "The greatest living champion of water" -- "Convict no. 9653" -- "A gathering of asteroids" -- "A mother's advice is always safest" -- "Back to normal" -- "A pretty good Constitution" -- "Wake up Ethiopia!" -- "Warren Gamaliel Harding is not a white man" -- "Perverts by official orders" -- "It was an earthquake" -- "Power must fail" -- "Fear itself."

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"Pietrusza's new work presents a panorama of presidential personalities, ambitions, plots and counterplots, deadlocked conventions, and smoke-filled rooms - a picture of America at the crossroads of the modern era."--Jacket

This election was the only time that six once-and-future presidents -- Warren G. Harding, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin D. Roosevelt -- were jockeying for the White House at the same time. It was the first to generate extensive newsreel coverage and to utilize modern advertising techniques. It was also the first election in which all women could vote and to have its results broadcast by radio. The Ku Klux Klan incited hatred against Catholics, blacks, and Jews, prohibition took effect, the Palmer Raids arrested more than 6,000 radicals, authorities charged Sacco and Vanzetti with murder, political terrorism first invaded lower Manhattan when a bomb rocked Wall Street, Socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs garnered nearly a million votes -- from his Atlanta jail cell, and both major party campaigns exploded with sex scandals.--Adapted from dust jacket

1920.

1920.

Nineteen twenty

Personality and politics

Presidential candidates-- United States-- History-- 20th century

Presidents-- United States-- Election-- 1920

United States, Politics and government, 1913-1921

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